I don’t think they get how silly it is. I get their trying to maintain some form of attachment that originally there or great great grandfather had but most are so alienated from Irish culture it’s hilarious.
American here
No one asked
Well, as an American
No one cares
r/Ireland users try to go one single hour without expressing their superiority complex over Americans challenge (impossible)
Most Americans are well aware that we’re all mutts.
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I love that county Leinster is an unrecognisable food!
Meanwhile: *Irish ppl not shutting up about an Argentinian footballer because his surname is macalister and his great grandad was Irish.
They really do pick & choose. Like the American celebrities with clearly Irish surnames that identify as “Italian”. 🤌🏼
Had a discussion the other day with a yank who had O’Randolphs in his family so he was Irish. Got really pissed off when I said Randolph was Germanic, not Celtic, so his ancestors probably came from England or Germany.
His argument was, it had O’ so it was Irish. I can put O’ in front of my name, doesn’t make my name Irish, it’s still Dutch.
I would like to be a german spaghetti?
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You have to understand about America is that a lot of their history was lost during emigration. They want to know “where did I come from. Who were my ancestors and where were they from?”
Everyone in America comes from somewhere and a lot of times it’s multiple countries.
Now if you’re German, or Swedish or Indian etc etc. you know exactly where you are from. I’ve seen Irish YouTubers take DNA tests and they come back 98% Irish.
Americans take a DNA test and it’s 56% British, 20% Irish, 10% Scottish, 5% French and 5% German and 4%Italian. Nobody in America, that’s been here since the turn the early 1900’s, can claim to be 90% of anything. Unless you’re Native American a DNA test is not going to say your are x% American.
Nothing wrong with being proud of one’s heritage especially, with the DNA kits now, most people are realizing where their ancestors are from. Now it is silly for them to say “I’m Irish or I’m Scottish etc”. No, that’s your heritage but you’re American.
At the end of the day we are all related, if you go back far enough, and we are all humans trying to figure out life.
It’s obv Leinster county not county Leinster
The yanks are sound.
We went to the St Patrick’s day parade in Dublin a few years ago and an American woman behind us loudly explaining to an Irish couple beside her that she was 1/8 Cherokee! Would you even mention that? We still snigger about it years on god bless her
I’m FRENCH!
As an American, never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
Guys, we get it, you’re obsessed with us.
And when the time is right, “I have Native American blood, so…”
Funny how no American is ever of English or French descent 🤔 jk
The anti-diaspora sentiment from Irish people is something I didn’t expect to experience when I first posted on Irish soccer message boards when starting to follow the League of Ireland club that is where my grandparents are from.
I guess there are always people who are going to complain about others but I find it hard to believe the diaspora, and the Irish-American one in particular, hasn’t been extremely politically beneficial to Ireland.
I’ve come to appreciate that Irish-American and Irish are two different cultures.
👏👏👏👏 Well said 😂
At this point, Europeans & Africans should probably just join up to start a television series on how they dislike Americans lol. You guys sure do complain about the same things everyday.
My white grandfather was descended from Irish and Scottish immigrants during the Famine times. He was a diehard in celebrating his ethnicities as he was not far removed from the history and his father really stressed the importance of knowing where you come from. So apart from my other traditions, I was embedded in dance, music, history, language, and modern politics.
I set that up to say I never go about as if I’m from those places. Yet I encounter Americans in the activities I do that have sticks up their asses about how they’re more Irish or Scottish than someone else without doing much more than attending the occasional Ceilidh at the cultural center. Or wearing green on March 17th.
Which brings me to another point. Any Irish here been to an American St Paddy’s Day celebration? It makes me so EMBARRASSED. Once I was with my band at a gig on these drunken street filled with people in Kiss Me I’m Irish shirts and Leprechaun gear, green beer, you name it, and my band circled up at this one place and some drunk guy was trying to hang off the drones of my bagpipes and touch them while we were playing. Some drunk chick in all green rolled out in front of our bus with her short “kilt” (emphasize the “”) flipped upside down. I hate it.
It reminds me of how non-NDNs in the States culturally appropriate and misunderstand what being Native American really is. /rant over
What is this threads obsession with Americans
This image… Forgot the “Munster County”
Pass the Munster please, this traditional Pig and Porter has no taste 😂
(Remember someone a couple of months said “Munster County” and we saw some gas reply about yer wan being an Absolute Gowl)
American here from a Catholic family of mixed European ancestry. My father’s family is of Irish descent; my last name starts with a Mc. My mother’s family came from Poland. My father grew up in an Irish neighborhood of mostly second generation US born. My mother’s Polish family was of more recent immigrants and they lived in a Polish neighborhood with a Parrish that had Polish masses. My great grandmother was a immigrant from Poland who spoke very little English but it didn’t matter because the local markets were operated by Poles.
My parents generation were the first to marry outside their ethnic group but still married other Catholics. My uncle, my father’s older brother married a woman from an Italian family for instance. In my parents’ US east coast city the ethnic neighborhoods weren’t far from each other. My parents met in the junior high school they both attended. After they married and could afford to buy a home in the close suburbs, they moved to a area where there were lots of people like themselves, Catholic but of mixed ethnicity. I think their story is somewhat typical of east coast Americans of their generation.
And yes, I have gone to my home town Irish pub named Mulrooney’s on many a St Patrick’s Day.
Or they know the county and just can’t pronounce it.
“Hey, where you from buddy?”
“Er, Ireland.”
“REALLY, ME TOO?!?!”
“Oh, you must have been away a long time, your accent is…”
“Oh, I wasn’t BORN there. My great grandfather was from donny… donny…donny niggle or some shit?”
“Oh, you mean Donegal?”
“THAT’S THE PLACE!!!! Yeah, and I love Guinness too, man!”
That county Leinster thing was gas
Leinster is a feckin province with counties in it not a county
My moms side of the family is descended from Irish immigrants, and I lived in county Kerry for eight years of my life, how’s tbat
As an American, this has ALWAYS been very strange to me.
P.s. thanks to this sub for showing me things I can’t afford to visit lol
I’m Irish American and I do my best to keep up with Irish history, culture, and current events
As a Canadian, whose grandparents were from Galway and Limerick, I feel left out. Somebody hate me too… If it’s more inflammatory, I have citizenship
American here. Confused by your post
It’s crazy how much y’all be ignoring history. It’s not like HALF the population of Ireland fled to N America or anything lol.
*Ireland for centuries; exiled brothers and sisters don’t forget the blood that runs through your veins, don’t forsake your homeland in its hour of need
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County Leinster?
Bit early on a Monday to start the yank bashing
I don’t think they get how silly it is. I get their trying to maintain some form of attachment that originally there or great great grandfather had but most are so alienated from Irish culture it’s hilarious.
American here
No one asked
Well, as an American
No one cares
r/Ireland users try to go one single hour without expressing their superiority complex over Americans challenge (impossible)
Most Americans are well aware that we’re all mutts.
[deleted]
I love that county Leinster is an unrecognisable food!
Meanwhile: *Irish ppl not shutting up about an Argentinian footballer because his surname is macalister and his great grandad was Irish.
They really do pick & choose. Like the American celebrities with clearly Irish surnames that identify as “Italian”. 🤌🏼
Had a discussion the other day with a yank who had O’Randolphs in his family so he was Irish. Got really pissed off when I said Randolph was Germanic, not Celtic, so his ancestors probably came from England or Germany.
His argument was, it had O’ so it was Irish. I can put O’ in front of my name, doesn’t make my name Irish, it’s still Dutch.
I would like to be a german spaghetti?
[deleted]
You have to understand about America is that a lot of their history was lost during emigration. They want to know “where did I come from. Who were my ancestors and where were they from?”
Everyone in America comes from somewhere and a lot of times it’s multiple countries.
Now if you’re German, or Swedish or Indian etc etc. you know exactly where you are from. I’ve seen Irish YouTubers take DNA tests and they come back 98% Irish.
Americans take a DNA test and it’s 56% British, 20% Irish, 10% Scottish, 5% French and 5% German and 4%Italian. Nobody in America, that’s been here since the turn the early 1900’s, can claim to be 90% of anything. Unless you’re Native American a DNA test is not going to say your are x% American.
Nothing wrong with being proud of one’s heritage especially, with the DNA kits now, most people are realizing where their ancestors are from. Now it is silly for them to say “I’m Irish or I’m Scottish etc”. No, that’s your heritage but you’re American.
At the end of the day we are all related, if you go back far enough, and we are all humans trying to figure out life.
It’s obv Leinster county not county Leinster
The yanks are sound.
We went to the St Patrick’s day parade in Dublin a few years ago and an American woman behind us loudly explaining to an Irish couple beside her that she was 1/8 Cherokee! Would you even mention that? We still snigger about it years on god bless her
I’m FRENCH!
As an American, never before have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.
Guys, we get it, you’re obsessed with us.
And when the time is right, “I have Native American blood, so…”
Funny how no American is ever of English or French descent 🤔 jk
The anti-diaspora sentiment from Irish people is something I didn’t expect to experience when I first posted on Irish soccer message boards when starting to follow the League of Ireland club that is where my grandparents are from.
I guess there are always people who are going to complain about others but I find it hard to believe the diaspora, and the Irish-American one in particular, hasn’t been extremely politically beneficial to Ireland.
I’ve come to appreciate that Irish-American and Irish are two different cultures.
👏👏👏👏 Well said 😂
At this point, Europeans & Africans should probably just join up to start a television series on how they dislike Americans lol. You guys sure do complain about the same things everyday.
My white grandfather was descended from Irish and Scottish immigrants during the Famine times. He was a diehard in celebrating his ethnicities as he was not far removed from the history and his father really stressed the importance of knowing where you come from. So apart from my other traditions, I was embedded in dance, music, history, language, and modern politics.
I set that up to say I never go about as if I’m from those places. Yet I encounter Americans in the activities I do that have sticks up their asses about how they’re more Irish or Scottish than someone else without doing much more than attending the occasional Ceilidh at the cultural center. Or wearing green on March 17th.
Which brings me to another point. Any Irish here been to an American St Paddy’s Day celebration? It makes me so EMBARRASSED. Once I was with my band at a gig on these drunken street filled with people in Kiss Me I’m Irish shirts and Leprechaun gear, green beer, you name it, and my band circled up at this one place and some drunk guy was trying to hang off the drones of my bagpipes and touch them while we were playing. Some drunk chick in all green rolled out in front of our bus with her short “kilt” (emphasize the “”) flipped upside down. I hate it.
It reminds me of how non-NDNs in the States culturally appropriate and misunderstand what being Native American really is. /rant over
What is this threads obsession with Americans
This image… Forgot the “Munster County”
Pass the Munster please, this traditional Pig and Porter has no taste 😂
(Remember someone a couple of months said “Munster County” and we saw some gas reply about yer wan being an Absolute Gowl)
American here from a Catholic family of mixed European ancestry. My father’s family is of Irish descent; my last name starts with a Mc. My mother’s family came from Poland. My father grew up in an Irish neighborhood of mostly second generation US born. My mother’s Polish family was of more recent immigrants and they lived in a Polish neighborhood with a Parrish that had Polish masses. My great grandmother was a immigrant from Poland who spoke very little English but it didn’t matter because the local markets were operated by Poles.
My parents generation were the first to marry outside their ethnic group but still married other Catholics. My uncle, my father’s older brother married a woman from an Italian family for instance. In my parents’ US east coast city the ethnic neighborhoods weren’t far from each other. My parents met in the junior high school they both attended. After they married and could afford to buy a home in the close suburbs, they moved to a area where there were lots of people like themselves, Catholic but of mixed ethnicity. I think their story is somewhat typical of east coast Americans of their generation.
And yes, I have gone to my home town Irish pub named Mulrooney’s on many a St Patrick’s Day.
Or they know the county and just can’t pronounce it.
“Hey, where you from buddy?”
“Er, Ireland.”
“REALLY, ME TOO?!?!”
“Oh, you must have been away a long time, your accent is…”
“Oh, I wasn’t BORN there. My great grandfather was from donny… donny…donny niggle or some shit?”
“Oh, you mean Donegal?”
“THAT’S THE PLACE!!!! Yeah, and I love Guinness too, man!”
That county Leinster thing was gas
Leinster is a feckin province with counties in it not a county
My moms side of the family is descended from Irish immigrants, and I lived in county Kerry for eight years of my life, how’s tbat
As an American, this has ALWAYS been very strange to me.
P.s. thanks to this sub for showing me things I can’t afford to visit lol
I’m Irish American and I do my best to keep up with Irish history, culture, and current events
As a Canadian, whose grandparents were from Galway and Limerick, I feel left out. Somebody hate me too… If it’s more inflammatory, I have citizenship
American here. Confused by your post
It’s crazy how much y’all be ignoring history. It’s not like HALF the population of Ireland fled to N America or anything lol.
*Ireland for centuries; exiled brothers and sisters don’t forget the blood that runs through your veins, don’t forsake your homeland in its hour of need
*also Ireland; lol the yanks think they’re Irish